The Week covers the Best of the British and Foreign Media. With its non partisan reporting, The Week gives the reader an insight into all the the news, people, arts, drama, property, books and how the international media has reported it. This concise guide allows the reader to be up to date and have a wealth of knowledge to allow them to discuss all these key topics with their friends and peers.
It wasn’t all bad
The death of Navalny
Labour’s double victory
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The rise in antisemitism
Spirit of the age
Good week for:
Bad week for:
English test scandal
Trident missile failure
Poll watch
Europe at a glance
The world at a glance
People
Castaway of the week • This week’s edition of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs featured the volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer
Viewpoint: Drunkonyms
Farewell
Self-driving cars: the revolution that wasn’t? • Why driverless vehicles are still a very rare sight on the world’s roads today
The road to automation
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… • I read it in the tabloids
Best of the American columnists
School shootings: holding the parents to account
Best articles: International
Jubilant behind bars: Imran Khan defies the military
What the scientists are saying…
Ancient wall found under the Baltic
A beef-rice hybrid
Gossip
London’s Overground: a “woke” rebrand
“Rishicession”: the UK’s faltering economy
War in Ukraine: the fall of Avdiivka
The ban on mobiles: gesture politics?
Wit & Wisdom
Statistic of the week
Cricket: Stokes’s England suffer a crushing defeat
Football: young Dane finally hits his stride for United
Tennis: no one’s going single any more
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
Keeping mobiles out of school
Smoke and Ashes
Breaking Through
Burma Sahib
Theatre: The Picture of Dorian Gray • Theatre Royal Haymarket, London SW1 (020-7930 8800, thr.co.uk). Until 11 May
Theatre: Dear Octopus • Lyttelton, National Theatre, London SE1 (020-3989 5455, nationaltheatre.org.uk)
Film
The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth: was Columbia an avoidable disaster?
Exhibition of the week Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind • Tate Modern, London SE1 (020-7887 8888, tate.org.uk). Until 1 September
Where to buy… • The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery
An art project for Assange
Best books… Roger Lewis • The writer picks his favourites. He will be speaking about his latest book, Erotic Vagrancy: Everything About Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor (Riverrun £30), at Book Week on 2 March (jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk).
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
New to streaming
15th and 16th century houses
Food & Drink • What the experts recommend
Recipe of the week: leek, spinach and chickpea soup
Land Rover Defender 130 V8: “an exercise in excess”
The best… steam irons
Tips… how to be safe on the slopes
And for those who have everything…
Where to find… country pubs for a cosy weekend
This week’s dream: Palermo’s swagger and scruffy charm
Getting the flavour of…
Hotel of the week
Opposition leader who refused to be cowed by the Kremlin
Well-loved DJ who pioneered the “zoo” format
Companies in the news …and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
Drop the dead lion
Issue of the week: Currys in play • The...